The Top Art Books to Read this Autumn
29 October 2024 • Tabish Khan
Fraud, artists, the art market, novels and mirrors.
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls and bridges throughout the world.
His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. He says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public “installations” are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall they were painted on. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of Banksy’s works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency created by Banksy named Pest Control.
29 October 2024 • Tabish Khan
Fraud, artists, the art market, novels and mirrors.
30 September 2024 • Mark Westall
Banksy’s Vests First Made Headlines at Glastonbury With Stormzy Wearing Another Version During Historic Performance
14 September 2024 • Mark Westall
Last weekend on Sunday, 8th September, at around 11 p.m., a thief used a hammer to smash the windows of Grove Gallery in Fitzrovia, London, and steal Banksy’s iconic Girl with Balloon,
27 August 2024 • Mark Westall
Grove Gallery has been busy pulling together some of the most iconic Banksy works around for a new exhibition “Breakout: Banksy’s London Rebellion,”
21 August 2023 • Mark Westall
Through this, Banksy’s Valentine’s Day Mascara mural, valued at £6 million, will be made accessible for ordinary members of the public to own a share of – for just £120.
16 June 2023 • Mark Westall
The graffiti artist Banksy has announced his first official solo exhibition for 14 years. It will run at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art from Sunday.
9 June 2023 • Mark Westall
Banksy’s artwork Valentine’s Day Mascara was unveiled today at its new home at Dreamland Margate.
19 May 2023 • Mark Westall
Experts in Banksy restorations, Fine Art Restoration Company, have recently conserved one of the famous graffiti artist’s Lowestoft murals created in 2021, known as Sandcastle Girl.
28 December 2022 • Tabish Khan
The top art-y reads to pick up in the new year.
12 November 2022 • Mark Westall
Banksy in Ukraine after revealing his latest artwork on Instagram. Speculation had been mounting that the artist was in the… Read More
7 November 2022 • Mark Westall
Banksy’s Met Ball his irreverently critical take on a ‘disco ball’ is to be offered at auction for the first… Read More
7 November 2022 • Mark Westall
Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all time. But we don’t actually know who he is. This is just one of many contradictions that are addressed in this enormously compelling graphic biography.
4 February 2022 • Mark Westall
From Banksy to Vincent Van Gogh, there are a lot of artists whose work is admired globally, but which artist… Read More
24 January 2022 • Mark Westall
3 works by Banksy, are coming up for auction from the collection of Robbie Williams. Kissing Coppers (est. £2.5-3.5 million),… Read More
21 October 2021 • Mark Westall
Vanguard will host an auction of works by some of the biggest names in contemporary art in aid of charities… Read More
9 September 2021 • Mark Westall
Art the Arms Fair intends to expose the DSEI arms fair, which is held with the support of the UK Government in London every two years. One of the world’s largest arms fairs, DSEI opens its doors for one reason only – to push for as many arms sales as possible, including to official delegations from countries with poor human rights records and those involved in conflict.
22 July 2021 • Mark Westall
English artist Damien Hirst’s latest project, “The Currency”, is an artwork in two forms. Its physical form is 10,000 unique hand-painted A4 sheets covered in colourful dots. In the same way as paper money, each sheet includes a holographic image of Hirst, a signature, a microdot and – in place of a serial number – a small individual message.
21 July 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Walking round an auction house the realities of market prices never cease to amaze me. At Christies recently, for example,… Read More
23 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Banksy’s Game Changer was sold for £16,758,000 at Christie’s today 23rd March 2021, in the 20th Century Art Evening Sale.
7 January 2021 • Mark Westall
The exhibition Banksy. A Visual Protest is the first Banksy exhibition to be shown in Finland opening at Serlachius Museums in May 2021. The exhibition will be an extensive survey of the early art of Banksy.
4 January 2021 • Tabish Khan
The top art books for the year ahead including Banksy, Basquiat and Emin.
15 December 2020 • Mark Westall
Maddox Gallery | Five is a group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s fifth anniversary and recognising the many artists that have come to define the gallery.
19 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Tickets are now on sale for the Art of Banksy. The exhibition features an array of unique pieces
30 October 2020 • Mark Westall
GANksy, a new artificial intelligence software, has been trained to produce works that mimic BANKSY. Described by its creator as ‘a twisted visual genius whose work reflects our unsettled times’